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2016-08-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Regime mobilizes troops in Aleppo amid concerns of Russia-Turkey summit
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian regime has started re-deploying its forces from Daraa and Palmyra to Aleppo to participate in the battle against the Syrian opposition in regaining control on the strategic sites in the city.

Sources loyalist to regime reported to Zaman al-Wasl that about 1500 members of the Elite Republican Guards have been transferred to Aleppo, besides militias of Sokour al-Sahra sponsored by Ayman Jaber and Fatimyoon Brigade of Afghani majority were transferred from Palmyra to Aleppo.

The source mentioned that total count of forces arrived to Aleppo reached to 9000, while Fars, the Iranian official news agency confirmed that al-Radwan battalions affiliate of Hezbollah militias had arrived Syria beside the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

The source mentioned that a military order has been issued in regard to regaining control of regime's strategic strongholds in Aleppo, coincided with the Russian-Turkish summit between Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
and Recep Tayyib Erdogan in Petersburg today Tuesday.

The regime-loyal source attributed the significant loss of regime’s forces in Aleppo lately to lack of unity in the military decision, as there are Hezbollah militias, regime forces, the Iranian Elite Republican Guards and Paleostinian Quds brigade, subsequently the operations' coordinator among the allied forces in Aleppo has been change.

A commander in one of the opposition military formation expressed in his talk to Zaman Al Wasl that all forces the regime had gathered in Aleppo would not affect their plans.

The commander who talked on condition of anonymity said: "the decision has been taken by all the military formation to completely control Aleppo and outcomes would be seen in hours.
Posted by Fred 2016-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
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